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N|) ∈ max|R(E) Z(E). Another way of escaping the impossibility is by restricting application of the transfer principle to pairs of agents having the same preferences. 1. 6. No-envy versus Pareto this prevents any crossing of indifference curves as in the above figures. Ethically, the fact that agents have the same preferences guarantees not only that both prefer the bundle with more of every good, but also that this unanimous (among the two concerned agents) ranking of bundles extends to all Pareto indifferent allocations.

We actually consider a simpler restriction, namely, focusing on cases in which bundles physically dominate or are dominated by an equal split. In this way, the resulting requirement no longer needs to refer to preferences. 4 for an illustration. 4. Equal-split transfer still consumes less, then the after-transfer allocation is at least as good as the initial allocation. 2 Equal-Split Transfer For all E = (RN , ) ∈ D, and zN , zN ∈ X N , if there exist j, k ∈ N, and R++ such that zj − = zj |N| ∈ z k = zk + and for all i = j, k, zi = zi , then zN R(E) zN .

They may also be associated with the very nature of the problem. This is the case, for instance, if a status quo exists and the solution needs to be looked for in a neighborhood of it, or if the tools that the policymaker can resort to are limited – for instance, to linear taxation. Having a complete ranking of the allocations and maximizing it always leads to a well-defined solution (provided the set of implementable allocations is compact and the social ordering is continuous6 ) no matter which constraints turn out to be the binding ones.